{"id":1111483,"date":"2019-10-19T17:41:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T16:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1111483"},"modified":"2019-10-19T17:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T16:41:40","slug":"psg-defender-thomas-meunier-reveals-everton-transfer-interest","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/psg-defender-thomas-meunier-reveals-everton-transfer-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG defender Thomas Meunier reveals Everton transfer interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thomas Meunier has said that he may have joined Everton in the summer had the Toffees been able to offer European football.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Belgian defender is likely to leave Paris Saint-Germain in the summer when his contract expires.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Everton&#8217;s right-back problems: Five things to know&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Following Seamus Coleman&#8217;s broken leg, the right-back hasn&#8217;t looked the same player.<\/li>\n<li>Jonjoe Kenny filled in to good effect, but has been loaned out to Schalke this season.<\/li>\n<li>Djibril Sidibe was signed from Monaco as a result&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and impressed on his home league debut against West Ham.<\/li>\n<li>Meunier may be a target next summer when he becomes a free agent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7399272\/embed\/v4\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meunier has often been in and out of the PSG team and often finds himself being used across the back four as well as in midfield. Despite entering his prime and still remaining nothing more than a squad player, Meunier insists he is happy in France.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-7591123\/Thomas-Meunier-reveals-Toffees-says-wanted-stay-PSG.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Het Laatste Nieuws<\/a>, Meunier revealed that Everton had approached him but the player was not keen on the move.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;There was interest and there have been conversations, but it never came to a point where I had to decide: Do I sign or not? Always one of the parties did not agree.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1108162\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/premier-league-clubs-worst-best-result\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1108162\" class=\"wp-image-1108162 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/25112037\/premier-league-clubs-record-win-loss-featured-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Premier League best and worst results by club\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/25112037\/premier-league-clubs-record-win-loss-featured-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/25112037\/premier-league-clubs-record-win-loss-featured-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/25112037\/premier-league-clubs-record-win-loss-featured-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/25112037\/premier-league-clubs-record-win-loss-featured-66x37.jpg 66w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/25112037\/premier-league-clubs-record-win-loss-featured-620x350.jpg 620w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/25112037\/premier-league-clubs-record-win-loss-featured-940x530.jpg 940w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/25112037\/premier-league-clubs-record-win-loss-featured.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1108162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/premier-league-clubs-worst-best-result\">Every current Premier League club\u2019s best and worst result<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8220;No [the move breaking down wasn&#8217;t frustrating], because I have always made it clear that my ambition was to stay with PSG. I did not want to leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8220;Because playing at PSG is special. You are part of a team that can win a European competition, that is not something many players can say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8220;I could have signed with Everton \u2013 a good club. I would have played a lot, that&#8217;s for sure, and had a lot of fun too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8220;But Everton doesn&#8217;t play in European competition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Manchester United &amp; Liverpool Ranked From Worst to Best\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LDn2xp26mjE?start=567&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/sqwk.at\/Squawka-Sub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Silva relieves some pressure<\/h2>\n<p>Marco Silva went into the game against West Ham on Saturday knowing that his job could be on the line should the Hammers heap more misery on his side.<\/p>\n<p>However, fortunately for the Everton boss, they turned up. A tricky Bernard finish gave them an early lead and it was Gylfi Sigurdsson, who started on the bench, who wrapped up the points with a stunning strike in injury time.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham have now only won one of their last six games and are just two points ahead of the struggling Toffees.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about how Silva secured the three points on Saturday lunchtime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/everton-west-ham-analysis-silva-brands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Meunier has said that he may have joined Everton in the summer had the Toffees been able to offer European football. The 28-year-old Belgian defender is likely to leave Paris Saint-Germain in the summer when his contract expires. Everton&#8217;s right-back problems: Five things to know&#8230; Following Seamus Coleman&#8217;s broken leg, the right-back hasn&#8217;t looked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":1111484,"parent":0,"menu_order":4667,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Thomas Meunier has said that he may have joined Everton in the summer had the Toffees been able to offer European football.","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1111483","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"external_featured_image_url":"","hide_featured_image_pattern":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PSG defender Thomas Meunier reveals Everton transfer interest | Squawka | EN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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